fantastico

From Italian fantastico (“fantastic”), from Late Latin phantasticus (“imaginary”). Doublet of fantastic and fantastique.

fantastico (comparative more fantastico, superlative most fantastico)

1. (informal, humorous) fantastic

• IPA^(key): /fanˈtas.ti.ko/
• Rhymes: -astiko
• Hyphenation: fan‧tà‧sti‧co

Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus (“imaginary”), from Ancient Greek φανταστικός (phantastikós).

fantastico (feminine fantastica, masculine plural fantastici, feminine plural fantastiche)

1. fantastic (of or pertaining to fantasy)
2. fabulous, imaginary, imaginative, fantastic
3. (hyperbolic) fantastic, wonderful, great, terrific
4. eccentric, outlandish (of people)
5. (heraldry) a monster having body parts of different animals

• fantasticamente
• fantasticare
• fantasticheria

• fantasia

• → English: fantastico

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fantastico

1. first-person singular present indicative of fantasticare

• fantastico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• famtastico

Learned borrowing from Latin phantasticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek φανταστικός (phantastikós), from φαντάζω (phantázō) + -τικός (-tikós).

fantastico m (plural fantasticos, feminine fantastica, feminine plural fantasticas)

1. fantastic
   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria, Oviedo: Archivum, page 270:

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     [dizẽ que dou Deus a esta aruore natura de fazer sonar visões fantásticas ao que sobre ella dorme et véér antollanças mentirosas]

     they say that God gave this tree the nature of making dream fantastic visions to the one who sleeps by it and to see false mirages

• Galician: fantástico
• Portuguese: fantástico

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “fantástic”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “fantastico”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2025), “fantástico”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval [Historical and chronological vocabullary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa